Search for stem cell donors moves into the next round

80 participants in employee typing campaigns Greiner Bio-One has already organised two internal typing campaigns at the Upper Austrian sites. 80 employees were typed in the company’s campaigns and now hope to be able to help a sick person as a stem cell donor.

Typing: with cheek swab or blood sampling to save lives Thanks to the commitment of ‘Geben für Leben’, more than 148,000 people have been typed, and 395 life-saving stem cell donors have been found. Using a cheek swab or blood sample, any healthy person between the ages of 17 and 45 can be typed in order to be available as a potential donor worldwide. If the HLA values (parts of the DNA) match between a patient and a typed person, the typed person can save the life of the sick person with their stem cell donation.